Type -1001/8 as an SAT answer

Step by step

The question

Question: type −1001/8 as an SAT answer.

1 Count the characters

−1001/8 has 7 characters.

That is more than 6.

A negative answer gets one more character, for the minus sign.

So we type the decimal.

−1001/8 is −125.125 on the calculator.

We keep the first 6 characters: −125.1.

We just cut off the rest.

No need to round.

2 Type it in

We type −125.1.

Let's look back.

First: count the characters.

Last: type it in.